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Mathematics in Movies (Geek Alert!)
https://people.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/index.htmlDate: March 2006 - March 2024, by: Oliver Knill
Department of Mathematics, Harvard University
This is a collection of movie clips in which Mathematics appears (now about 430). It started during spring break 2006 (now 18 years ago). The site has changed in 2010 from Flash to HTML5 video. Direct video links allow a teacher to grab and include a clip, for example into a presentation. Since the formats used from 2006 to 2010 were small scale movies (bandwidth has still been an issue at that time), the movies are since 2016 added as separate pages.
The mp4 links are to clips.
The "movie links" are to IMDB
Some of the math is pretty light.
Need more?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_about_mathematicians
Wikipedia: List of films about mathematicians
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/math-goes-movies"
Book by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross: Math goes to the movies
http://popmystic.com/
Movie keyword search engine
https://leverageedu.com/blog/mathematics-movies
Beste Math movies list 2021
https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/20_films_about_math_mathematicians_and_math_geniuses/s1__28630979#slide_1
20 films about math
https://www.qedcat.com/moviemath
mathematical movies database
Unrelated: In "The Maltese Falcon", Sydney Greenstreet pronounces "can't" in the soft Bostonian way, whereas in a "Good Will Hunting" clip posted elsewhere, the hard "a" is used for "bath", which no Bostonian would ever use. This was from the NSA interview.
bahth and cahnt
For anther post?
